Simon Heffer | |
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Born | Simon James Heffer 18 July 1960 Chelmsford, Essex, England |
Education | King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
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Spouse |
Diana Caroline Heffer
(m. 1987) |
Children | 2 |
Simon James Heffer (born 18 July 1960) is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017.
He worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and since 2015 has had a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph. As a political commentator, Heffer takes a socially conservative position.